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Review of the film "One Percent Warrior" by Eoin Friel

Despite a somewhat slow start, One Percent Warrior is Tak Sakaguchi at his best, with stunning action scenes and excellent pacing that really makes this film worth...

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Trailers for the films "Killer Kids 2", "The One Percent" and "Reign 3: Flame of Destiny"

Japanese action thriller Killer Kids (2021) has become one of the most notable mid-budget Asian action films of the past couple of years. It's not surprising that the sequel didn't take long to arrive. At the director's helm...

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Danil Chupakhin

Trailers for the films "Seven Secretaries. The Movie", "Cruel Action" and "Bad Town"

A Japanese series (drama) called “Seven Secretaries” was released in 2020 and received a fairly high rating on TV and positive reviews from viewers. And so, following the traditional scheme, the successful project received...

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Danil Chupakhin

Trailers for the films "Ghatotkacha", "Mat Kilau: A Hero Awakens" and "Kingdom 2"

A trailer for a superhero film from Indonesia called “Ghatotkaca” (Satria Dewa: Gatotkaca), which we wrote about not long ago, has appeared online. Let us remind you that this project is a film adaptation of the Indonesian series...

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Iko Uwais in The Expendables 4, Gina Carano in a Western, Tak Sakaguchi in a Thriller

Most recently, we were wondering who would play the main villain in the new “Expendables,” because the name of this actor should have weight in the action genre. We didn't have to wait long. The main antagonist was...

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Interview with Sion Sono for Film Combat Syndicate

In the trailer for his new film "Prisoners of the Land of Ghosts", there is no characteristic inscription "A film by Siono Sono", and there is not even the usual prefix "director", designed to introduce the famous filmmaker to the American public. But it flaunts an attractive...

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Danil Chupakhin

Trailers for the films "Kate", "Yakuza Princess" and "Prisoners of the Land of Ghosts"

2021 can truly be heralded as the year of action films with a strong female character in the spotlight. This year alone, such action films as “Monster Hungter”, “Black...

Summing up Action Cinema 2020: Historical, Fantasy or Wuxia Film and Short Film 8
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Summing up Action Cinema 2020: Historical, Fantasy or Wuxia Film and Short Film

Despite the busyness of the FFI editorial authors and the “pushing back” of the deadline for publishing analytics on our project, we are still not backing down when identifying the best action films of 2020. So, it's time to find out...

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Danil Chupakhin

Trailers for the films "Musou Cruelty", "The Sun Doesn't Move" and "Chinatown Detective 3"

The sequel to the zombie action film “Confrontation” (2000), which introduced the world to the talented director Ryuhei Kitamura and the former street fighter Taka Sakaguchi, was talked about literally immediately after the success of the film, which is now considered a cult in Japanese...

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Danil Chupakhin

Trailers for the films "The Mad Samurai Musashi", "Deliver Us from Evil" and "Invincible"

A full-fledged trailer for the samurai action film Crazy Samurai Musashi has appeared online - a long-term construction project from director Yuji Shimomura (Deadly Trance, Rebirth), screenwriter Shiono Sono (Why Don't You Play...

Summing up the results of action cinema 2019: Historical, fantasy or wuxia film and Blockbuster of the year 4
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Summing up the results of action cinema 2019: Historical, fantasy or wuxia film and Blockbuster of the year

Something so much has happened over the past couple of weeks that the whole world seems, if not frozen, then very noticeably slowed down. Our editorial staff, alas, is no exception. We want to write for you...

Collaborations between Taka Sakaguchi and Nicolas Cage, Daniel Wu and Hugh Jackman, Maggie Q and Michael Keaton 0
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Collaborations between Taka Sakaguchi and Nicolas Cage, Daniel Wu and Hugh Jackman, Maggie Q and Michael Keaton

The famous Japanese film maker Sion Sono has gained fame as the most “subversive” director of Japanese cinema over the past decade, equaling Takashi Miike in scandalous film fame. We already wrote that Sono is preparing...

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Trailers for "Ups and Downs: The Worst", "The Last Ninja" and "Black Fox: Age of Ninja"

The Japanese HiGH&LOW franchise from LDH Pictures is currently one of the most impressive series in the land of the rising sun, not reaching the cult tokusatsu projects. Series...

Stallone will work with Iko Uwais and Dolph Lundgren, action movie streaming services are developing 0
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Stallone will work with Iko Uwais and Dolph Lundgren, action movie streaming services are developing

According to the news agency Variety, action movie legend Sylvester Stallone seriously intends to focus on producing activities, developing his own studio, Balboa Productions. Sly plans to develop his brand as "a place where...

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Trailers for the films "Rise of the Machine Gun Girls", "First Love" and "Crazy Musashi"

Japanese fantasy trash has long been a unique layer of cinema, which, despite its strangeness, finds fans all over the world. Actually, that’s why the “strange movie” genre from the land of the rising sun is all...

Summing up the results of action cinema 2018: Historical, fantasy or wuxia film and Best Asian action film 0
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Summing up the results of action cinema 2018: Historical, fantasy or wuxia film and Best Asian action film

Well, friends, it’s time to start directly summing up the results of action films for 2018. Even the Oscar ceremony has already passed, and we still can’t get over the analytics....

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Trailers for independent films "Blood, Sweat and Horror", "Red Blade" and "Johnny Zee"

In cinema, so-called film almanacs are not uncommon. A similar thing happened on our topic - they released an independent project called “Blood, Sweat and Terrors”. On creation...

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Trailers for the films "The Killing", "Wild Dance of Swords" and "Kingdom"

Shinya Tsukamoto is a well-known and respected Japanese director who is considered one of the founders of the movement that some critics call “strange Japanese cinema.” He is the author and director of such sensational...

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Netflix is ​​adapting Avatar: The Last Airbender and Baahubali into TV series + This is how Sakaguchi masters crowdfunding

It seems that the American entertainment company Netflix, which supplies films and series for streaming media, is very serious about large-scale projects. You probably already know that the company is developing a film adaptation of the cult fantasy...

New projects by Taka Sakaguchi, Veronica Ngo and Sunny Pan 0
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New projects by Taka Sakaguchi, Veronica Ngo and Sunny Pan

Japanese action film actor Tak Sakaguchi has returned from his “retirement” for the project of his longtime friend and partner Yuji Shimomura called “Rebirth”. The film received mostly positive reviews and did well...

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